Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

25 September

Symposium on Reducing Water Consumption through Social Innovation using Theory of Change

  • 08:15 - 13:00
  • Niagara (TBC)

Welcome! Coffee/tea available from 09.45 08.30– Introduction of symposium and participants by Associate Professor Per Hillbur, Principal Investigator. 08.45– Presentation on Social Innovation by Abid Mehmood, PhD, Cardiff University. 09.00– Presentation on Theory of Change by Nicola Morelli, PhD, Aalborg University. 09.15– Presentation on Use of Theory of Change in the Waste Sector in Abuja, […]

26 September

Lexicons of Struggle for Housing, Livelihoods and Citizenship on the Urban Margins

  • 09:00 - 11:00
  • NIC0292

Visiting scholar Dr Kavita Ramakrishnan will present her research trajectory in this seminar titled Lexicons of Struggle for Housing, Livelihoods and Citizenship on the Urban Margins. This talk brings a multi-sited perspective to the urban ‘margins’, seeking to recentre everyday sites of experimentation through the vernaculars of those that inhabit these spaces. Drawing on case […]

27 September

“Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism”

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • Hybrid (NICO826 - Zoom)

Brown Bag Seminar Claudia Fonseca Alfaro  –  Past, Present and Future of Urban Studies. Zoom link This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you have any questions please contact Defne Kadioglu.

2 October

Multivocal Knowledges for Just Urban Climate Futures

  • 13:15 - 15:00
  • NI:B0305

By guest researcher Kavita Ramakrishnan: This talk is concerned with adverse atmospheres and climates – in particular extreme heat -that impact the most marginalized in the city. Focusing on Southern urbanisms, I connect histories of colonial weather and meteorology that sought to differentiate certain kinds of bodies, to present day government plans for heat preparedness […]

4 October

Unsettled City: Neoliberal redevelopment, state crisis, slum resettlement & biopolitical struggle in Mumbai

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • Hybrid (NICO826 - Zoom)

Brown Bag Seminar Rishi Jah  –  Unsettled City: Neoliberal redevelopment, state crisis, slum resettlement & biopolitical struggle in Mumbai Zoom link This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you have any questions please contact Defne Kadioglu.

18 October

Interstitial practices and the production of differential space in Hanoi

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • Hybrid (NICO826 - Zoom)

Brown Bag Seminar Hoai-Anh Tran –  Interstitial practices and the production of differential space in Hanoi. Zoom link This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you have any questions please contact Defne Kadioglu.

1 November

Changing Markets, Moving Actors: The Case of the Swedish Union of Tenants

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • Hybrid (NICO826 - Zoom)

Brown Bag Seminar Carina Listerborn & Defne Kadioglu  –  Changing Markets, Moving Actors: The Case of the Swedish Union of Tenants. Zoom link This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you have any questions please contact Defne Kadioglu.

22 November

Brown bag (Title to be confirmed)

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • Hybrid (NICO826 - Zoom)

Brown Bag Seminar Bjørn Enge Bertelsen& Austin Dziwornu Ablo  –  Past, Present and Future of Urban Studies. Zoom link This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you have any questions please contact Defne Kadioglu.